Christina Tosi Quotes

I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

Since I was a kid, baking has been part of my life.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

I'm bad at baking.

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.

I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.

I'm a very bad baker.

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

I've always been hooked on baking.

I have been a baker for more than 30 years now, and in terms of equipment, all I really need is flour. It still amazes me what a versatile commodity it is, as you can do so many different things with it, and I never tire of trying new blends and recipes.

The matriarchs of my family loved to bake, and the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Baking became something I did every day; it became a time where my creative and nurturing side took stage.

I've never been much of a cake-maker.

I'm a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I've made some psychedelic birthday cakes.

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.

Sometimes there is dogma in baking and sometimes there is not - you just have to know when to break the rules and when to follow them.

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.

It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries.

Baking is therapy.

Baking is both an art and a science.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.